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Former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant Jael Strauss has died just two months after announcing she’d been diagnosed with cancer.

Sources close to the model — who competed on season 8 of the reality show — tell us she died in hospice Tuesday around 11 AM after taking a turn for the worse Monday night. We’re told she’d been unconscious for a few days, and her family recently stopped allowing visitors.

Jael decided to stop chemotherapy around Halloween and went into hospice on Thanksgiving, saying on Facebook, “First night in hospice. So many things I never knew about life. Or death. So many things.”

The model went public with her cancer diagnosis in October earlier this year with a heartbreaking Facebook post, revealing she’d been diagnosed with “incurable” stage 4 breast cancer.

At the time, Jael wrote to her followers … “I was gonna write some long thing but some of you guys deserve to know, On October 2nd I was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer.”

She continued … “It has aggressively spread throughout my body and is incurable. With treatment it may prolong my life longer than the ‘few months’ doctors said I could make it. I don’t want to die. I need another one of those miracles that I got back in 2013.”

Jael appeared on Dr. Phil in 2012 to tackle her addiction issues, and celebrated 5 years of sobriety this past August on IG. Her caption read in part … “I know a few things to be true: Miracles are real, Recovery is possible for everyone no matter how far gone you think you are, We are never too broken to be put back together, Service work feels better than the greatest high, Sobriety makes you weirder not normal and I’d be dead if it weren’t for all the love and forgiveness I’ve been showered with by my friends and family.”

A GoFundMe was started for Jael about a month ago that’s raised more than $ 18k of a $ 30k goal to fund her treatment. Jael’s family and friends tell TMZ in a statement … “The one blessing was that we were able to show her how loved she was before she passed. She brought so much light to people.”

Former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Jael Strauss dedicated her life to helping people struggling with addiction before she lost her battle with cancer earlier this week.

An employee at Solstice Recovery Foundation near Austin, TX, who worked there with Jael, tells TMZ the ex-model was heavily involved in the rehab center’s efforts — volunteering to help folks, especially women, fight drug addiction.

We’re told Jael would often spearhead online fundraisers to provide scholarships to those needing treatment. She’d also share her own story of recovery as inspiration for patients.

Jael’s kindness was reciprocated this past October shortly after she announced she’d been diagnosed with incurable, stage 4 breast cancer.

The Solstice employee tells us her friends quickly organized the “F**k Cancer-Love Like Jael” fundraiser for her, and raised around $ 8,000 for her treatment costs.

During the fundraiser, people who donated $ 20-$ 50 could get free tattoos that said “F**k Cancer” or “Jael Love.” We’re told about 20 people got them.

We broke the story … Jael died in hospice Tuesday, just 2 months after being diagnosed with cancer. We’re told she stopped chemotherapy around Halloween.

Former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant Jael Strauss has died just two months after announcing she’d been diagnosed with cancer.

Sources close to the model — who competed on season 8 of the reality show — tell us she died in hospice Tuesday around 11 AM after taking a turn for the worse Monday night. We’re told she’d been unconscious for a few days, and her family recently stopped allowing visitors.

Jael decided to stop chemotherapy around Halloween and went into hospice on Thanksgiving, saying on Facebook, “First night in hospice. So many things I never knew about life. Or death. So many things.”

The model went public with her cancer diagnosis in October earlier this year with a heartbreaking Facebook post, revealing she’d been diagnosed with “incurable” stage 4 breast cancer.

At the time, Jael wrote to her followers … “I was gonna write some long thing but some of you guys deserve to know, On October 2nd I was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer.”

She continued … “It has aggressively spread throughout my body and is incurable. With treatment it may prolong my life longer than the ‘few months’ doctors said I could make it. I don’t want to die. I need another one of those miracles that I got back in 2013.”

Jael appeared on Dr. Phil in 2012 to tackle her addiction issues, and celebrated 5 years of sobriety this past August on IG. Her caption read in part … “I know a few things to be true: Miracles are real, Recovery is possible for everyone no matter how far gone you think you are, We are never too broken to be put back together, Service work feels better than the greatest high, Sobriety makes you weirder not normal and I’d be dead if it weren’t for all the love and forgiveness I’ve been showered with by my friends and family.”

A GoFundMe was started for Jael about a month ago that’s raised more than $ 18k of a $ 30k goal to fund her treatment. Jael’s family and friends tell TMZ in a statement … “The one blessing was that we were able to show her how loved she was before she passed. She brought so much light to people.”

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The former Top Chef contestant, whose personality made her into a fan favorite on Season 15, has penned a powerful and emotional essay.

In it, Ali reveals that she has cancer — and will almost certainly be dead in a year.

“The cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone,” wrote the 29-year old on Tuesday wrote in a post published by Bon Appétit’s Healthyish.

In heartbreaking detail, she proceeded to give fans her diagnosis:

“My oncologist has told me that I have a year to live, with or without the new chemotherapy regimen.

“I was looking forward to being 30, flirty and thriving. Guess I have to step it up on the flirting. I have no time to lose.”

We have no idea how Ali, or anyone in her situation, can joke at a time like this.

It’s the epitome of bravery.

“It’s funny, isn’t it?” continued the beloved reality star.

“When we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living.

“When that choice is yanked away from us, that’s when we scramble to feel.

“I am desperate to overload my senses in the coming months, making reservations at the world’s best restaurants, reaching out to past lovers and friends, and smothering my family, giving them the time that I so selfishly guarded before.”

That’s what the song and the saying says, right?

To live like you are dying?

It really is tragic that only those actually dying typically have this kind of perspective.

Ali finished in seventh place on Top Chef.

In late 2017, she was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, which is a type of bone and soft tissue cancer.

The aspiring chef underwent numerous rounds of chemotherapy prior to having the tumor in her left shoulder surgically removed.

This is a photo of Ali and Padma Lakshmi in the hospital from January of 2018.

She announced in February that she was cancer-free, yet started suffering complications after completing her final found of chemotherapy in August.

“I’ve spent more time in sterile hospital rooms in the past year than I have in my own apartment,” Ali wrote in her essay.

“This has become my new home, and the staff a part of my family…

“Everyone’s amazed that I’m taking it so well. But when you hit rock bottom, there really is no place to go but up.”

Ali doesn’t know how much time she has left for sure, but she plans to spend the final months of her life doing what she loves best: visiting new restaurants in New York City.

“I was always deathly afraid of being average in any way,” she concluded. “And now I desperately wish to have a simple, uneventful life.”

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“I may wish Henry wasn’t in the hospital and it may make me f–king sick that my kids haven’t lived under the same roof for over a year,” Delaney writes in one excerpt.

“But I’m always, always happy to enter the hospital every morning and see him,” Delaney says. “It’s exciting every day to walk into his room and see him and see him see me.”

“The surgery to remove his tumor left him with Bell’s palsy on the left side of his face, so it’s slack and droops,” he describes. “His left eye is turned inward too, due to nerve damage.”

“But the right side of his face is incredibly expressive, and that side brightens right up when I walk into the room,” he writes.

“There’s no doubt about what kind of mood he’s in, ever,” Denaley continues.

“It’s particularly precious when he’s angry because seeing the contrast between a toddler’s naked rage in one half of his face and an utterly placid chubby chipmunk cheek and wandering eye in the other,” Delaney explains.

He goes on to say that it “is shocking in a way that makes me and my wife and whatever combination of nurses and/or doctors are in the room laugh every time.”